Based on the bestselling 'Great Courses' class taught by Brooke Landon, Building Great Sentences looks at the power of the sentence, from the two-word 'Jesus Wept' to Faulkner's 1,287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom!. By drawing on the masters, Landon illustrates the power of grammar & rhetoric, cumulative syntax, patterns, prose rhythm, suspensive syntax, and other elements of writing- - all which will help you craft sentences as brilliant and scintillating as the great authors. 267 indexed pages, softcover.